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A TEXAS 2—14, NEWSPAPER
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1944—EIGHT PAGES
Associated Press (AP) United Press (UP. PRICE FIVE CENTS
S. HEAVIES STREAK TO POLAND
Allies Nearing Rome
Aprilia Fals, Three pooese
Divisions Destroyed Saras
By the Associated Press
Rome reverberated to battle thunder 16 to 17 miles away I
today as the advancing Allies captured the dead factories-
O Aprihia, drove through flame-seared poppy fields within a .
mile of Valmontone and Campolenner and virtually destroy-Be -
ed three more German divisions of up to 45,000 men.
All along the Italian front approaching Rome, the Allies ■ . . .,
of a dozen nations pressed forward, sometimes through des- Beno J
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Below Rome. .
Bombs Dumped on
6 Plane Factories
LONDON, May 29.—(AP)—A thousand heavy American
bombers and 1,200 fighters spanned the length of Germany
today, bombing two aircraft factories in Poland and four
in central and eastern Germany while other fleets struck up
from the south at the Vienna and Wiener Neustadt areas.
The sky-darkening fleet equalled that of yesterday,
which was the largest ever dispatched by the U. S. air forces.
The Polish factories were at Poznan and Kreisling.
Those in Germany were at Leipzig, Tutow, Cottbus and
Soran. The flight to Poznan entailed a roundtrip of at
least 1,450 miles.
Simultaneously, hundreds of' lesser American bombers
struck heavily and repeatedly at the French invasion coast,
bombing bridges, railroads and airdromes.
The attacking Fortresses and Liberators split into sev-
eral spearheads in efforts to confound the enemy defenses.
The German radio reported the fleets engaged in a number
Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth army moved six miles
west from the main front through the Liri and Sacco valley,
bridging both rivers. Arce was
invested when the Allies sur-
Abilenians Join
Fighting in Italy
0 At least two Abilenians, 1st Lt.
Reed R. Jones, 31, son of Mr. and
Mrs M. M. Jones of 1941 South
5th, and Lt. Col. Rupert R. Hark-
rider, son of Mrs. Rupert Harkrider
jof 2026 North 3d, are known to be
Uh active duty with the Second
Army corps which. It was disclosed
yesterday, got its first taste of com-
bat in a smashing attack on the
German southern flank in Italy.
Two divisions composing the
f Forps under the command of Maj.
Gen. Geoffrey Keys, the 88th and
the 85th, were described as the first
all-selective service divisions to go
to the front lines.
Colonel Harkrider, with the
85th, volunteered far the service
■ nearly two years ago and was
sworn in as a captain. He was
sent to school to Washington
and was then named judge ad-
vocate of the 85th division while
it was stationed at Camp Shel-
g by, Miss. He is a graduate of
Abilene high school and of the
University of Texas law school
and had his law office in Bean-
snout when he volunteered for
service. His wife is now visiting
- In Abilene with his mother.
• Lieutenant Jones did not go into |
the division through the draft but
through the National Guard of
which he was a member 14 years.
He as mobilized into the 36th di-
vision but, after being graduated
Trom Officers Training school at
Ft. Sill Okla., was sent to Camp
Gruber near Muskogee, Okla., to
help train the newly formed 88th.
Lieutenant Joies, a field ar-
tillery officer, was graduated
ofom Abilene high school to
See ABILENIANS, Fg. s, Col. 7
rounded dominating Monte
Oreo. Ceprano was left six
miles within Allied lines.
The beachhead troops, paced
by naval fire from a French
cruiser, moved steadily across
the creased gullies of the west
coast below Rome toward the
mouth of the Tiber. They cut
the Anzio-Albano road, pressed
upon the stronghold of Velletri
and seemed to be outflanking
the Alban hills, last natural ob-
stacle before the Eternal City.'
The Germans announced aban-
donment of Aprilia, which has
changed hands five times since the
beachhead was established. Daniel
De Luce of the AP said the roofless,
shell-punctured town fell without a
hand-to-hand struggle. Kesselring
was trying desperately to scrape up
some reserves in north Italy to
patch up his shattered Nazi lines.
Radio Algiers said the marshal’s
men were “groggy and reeling" and
"disengaging along the whole front.”
CASSINO—WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH—Ancient Roman ruins stand as magnificent structures alongside
this shambles of the once mighty Nazi bastion in Italy—Cassino. Utter desolation is the scene after huge Allied guns—
and Germans, too—blasted the buildings to rubble, pockma rked the land with shell holes, and left only a vestige of the
famous St., Benedictine monastery standing on the lofty height. (NEA Photo).
of sky battles.
Enemy broadcasts said another Allied fleet was
striking in the “lower Danube basin" from Italy.
The operations on his hot, summery day were in force
comparable to yesterday’s great outpouring when 6,000 bomb-
ers and fighters flew from
British bases and- 2,000 more
Yanks Get Glimpse
Of Rome at Artena
By ROBERT VERMILLION
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT
ARTENA, May 28—(Delayed)-(UP)
American troops deployed from
this mountain town toward Val-
montone today and said they hoped
to be within Rome soon. They saw
Rome for the first time yesterdsy
from this town.
Pvt. Fred Hansen of Valley
* Junction, Ore., mid "seeing It
doesn’t mean much, because
there seem to be some Germans
between here and there. But not
too many. We hope to be in
there pretty soon.”
In between on the Campoleone-
Valmontone line, other forces
fought in the outskirts of Velletri
on the Appian Way, and closed up-
on Lanuvia, four miles southwest,
where the Alban hills begin to rise
from the Pontine plain.
As the sound at the great bat-
tle rolled into Rome, the enemy
to the mountains southeast of
Valmontone was driven out of
the towns of Sermoneta and
Bassiano, below Norma, which
was overwhelmed yesterday.
Snipers were active to the hills
beyond this area and Fifth
army patrols were mopping
them up.
French forces meantime followed
up their seizure of Ville Santo
Stefano by taking off northward
through the hills toward the Uri
valley making only casual contact
with the enemy and capturing Mon-
te Siserno, 2,400 feet high.
On the heels of the capture yes-
terday of the important town of
Ceprao on Highway 6 and the Liri
river, the Eighth army pushed west
and north. Throwing bridges rap-
idly across the Liri and Sacco riv-
ers, where the enemy had blown
up crossings. Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver
Leese's troops swept westward six
miles from Ceprano to Pofi.
From the beachhead Fifth army
troops met stubborn resistance' ev-
ery inch of the way in their drive
to crack the Anzio-Albano highway,
down which the Germans poured
vicious attacks last February, and
past the Aprilla highway, railroad
and factory area, scene of much
of the bloodiest fighting since the
beachhead was established
College Builders
Honored at ACC,
Tribute to the builders of Abi-
lene Christian college was made by
President Don Morris, graduate of
the 1924 class, this morning at 10
a. m. at a Builders Day program in
the college auditorium.
“This is a Builders Day program
rather than a Founders Day. We
are looking to the future as well
as remembering the past,” Presi-
dent Morris declared.
The Builders Day program, held
during ACC's 38th commencement
is the first of its kind. Theme of
the commencement week, President
Morris, said, is the fact that Abt-
lene Christian college has become
greeter than any of the men who
have worked with the institution.
Former presidents of the
school who attended the pro-
gram were: A. B. Barrett of
Henderson, Tenn., first presi-
dent, 1906-8; H. C. Darden,
1908-09; and James F. Cox,
1911-12 and 1932-40. Other
presidents were: R. L. White-
side of Denton, 1909-11; J. F.
. Sewell, 1912-24 and Batsell
Baxter, 1924-32.
Presiding at the program was
Frank Etter, vice-president of the
ex-student association. Singing of
the song, All Hall the Power of
Jesus’ Name waa led by W. H.
Free, who has led the singing of
this song for 37 years at com-
mencement.
Dr. Charles H. Roberson, head of
the Bible department, read the
See ACC, Pg. s, Col. 3
Desperate Sinos
in 4-Front Fight
ByYbe Associated Prexi
HSU Degrees to
83 at Exercise
China's armies fought desperately on four fronts, today to thwart
the most ambitious Japanese offensives in seven yuan of warring
against the Chinese.
The Astatic fighting overshadowed all ether Pacific war fronts,
including the progressing American invasion of the Schoutens, because
it was the most ominous. Chungking authorities felt thsl China, beset
to the north and east, may be entering its most critical period
of the conflict.
Japanese troops pushed down the Hankow-Canton railroad to within
80 miles of Changsha, a city the Chinese have seen fit to defend with
great effort on three previous occasions, all successfully. Four enemy
---------------------------------------------- columns pushed southward toward
Trent Man Dies
In New Guinea
TRENT, May 29.—(Spl.)—Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Lowery Sr. have received
word from the War department
their son, 8. Sgt. H. C. Lowery Jr.
was killed in action in New Guinea
May 14.
A graduate of Eskota high school.
Sergeant Lowery lived most of his
life near Trent. He was inducted
into the Army Nov. 16, 1941, and
waa sent overseas immediately af-
ter completing basic training at
Camp Wolters
He had had 25 months of foreign
Before entering service he was
an employe of the U. 8. Gypsum
company at Sweetwater A brother-
in-law, Sgt. Seth L Rokes now in
the Mediterranean area, has had it
months foreign duty.
Changsha, apparently to gain full
control of the rail line, which would
help sew up a great segment of
China fronting on the Pacific.
Coupled with Japanese drives to
win control of the Hankow-Peiping
or northern section of the railway,
the enemy objective could be to seal
off all of eatstern China—richest
part of the country—against future
Allied use as a base to bomb Japan,
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault’s
14th U. 8. airforce rushed into
the Changsha fighting, strafing
the road from Yoyang to Puchi,
destroying trucks, troops, ware-
houses and barracks. Farther
north his airmen attacked bar-
Hardin-Simmons university to-
day concluded its 52nd snnusl com-
mencement by graduating gi men
and women and granting master of
arts degrees to two men in exer-
cises in Behrens chapel.
Dean John W. Cobb of Wayland
college. Plainview, was 'the com-
mencement speaker, urging upon
each of the graduates the need for
building character.
“The greatest need of the world
today," he said, "is for men and
women of character distinction.
"Society needs a group of
people who will contend for the
proven truths with new zeal.
Central to the teachings of
Jesus is the fact that man is a
peculiar creature. He is the one
creature that must be treated
as having divine likeness, divine
responsibility, and divine des-
tiny. He must not be thought of
as a cog in a machine, as a slave
of a party, state or church.
"Each individual is of Infinite
value, of such value that he must
not be enslaved by anything. He
is supremely responsible to God
alone. Ha must ever be left free to
exercise his abilities under the dom-
inance of his creator, and along
with his fellow creatures.
racks ai Sinyang on the Han-
kow-Pieping section. —
Fighting 1 n Honan to the north. MaP 10P Human freeaon" Vit
raged on, at last report, but Chung-===-=----======---
king reports gave no new word on
the Chinese counter-offensive. The
"We are shedding the blood of our
best young men to fight a defensive
tory will soon be lost unless we can
Woman Charged
As Poison Seller
NEW YORK. May 29—(P)—Mrs.
Sophie Krisuinas, 11, was held with-
out bail today on a charge of homi-
cide following the death of six men
in Brooklyn who drank what po-
lice believe wu poison liquor.
Victor Filipkowski, M. waa found
dead yesterday as the latest victim
e Artena lies near the top of the
Highest peak of the Volscian moun-
tains and two miles south of High-
way 6, which now must be virtually
impassable to German transport.
From a high rock ledge above the____.____.___________
town I looked down into Valmontone after five men died Saturday A
and saw the rubble of ruined build- bottle of liquor found near his body
ings piled high on the main street was sent to the city toxicologists
which is highway 6. for analysis
for analysis.
Angelo Girl Gravely
Beaten; Negro Held
SAN ANGELO, May 29.—P-
Peggy Arnold, 20, telephone opera-
tor, was near death here today
from injuries received in a beating
late Saturday night. Preparations
were made to give her a blood
transfusion.
A negro soldier from Illinois, sta-
tioned at an airfield here, was held
by military authorities
Miss Arnold was beaten at a bus
stop
Military authorities said the sus-
pect had served time in a Texas
military prison several months ago
for an assault on a negro girl here.
Nation's Holiday
Fatalities to 109
By the Associated Frees
A weekend death toll from traffic
accidents, drownings and other mis-
haps stood at 109 today as the na-
tion began the third day of a four-
day Memorial holiday.
Only 81 of the deaths reported to-
day in an Associated Prem survey
resulted from automobile accidents
while 46 were from miscellaneous
causes and 33 from drowning.
California, with 11 deaths, led
in the number recorded. Illinois,
Massachusetts and New York had
10 dead each Accidental deaths
in Texas by a late count totaled
four
Japanese crowed that in capturing
Loyang, key rail city, they had dealt
Allied plans for a China-based air
offensive a mortal blow.
On a third front Chinese troops
slogged through rain, fog, mud and
sleet to Yunnan province, pursuing
Japanese retreating toward the Bur-
ma frontier. The Chinese aiming
at a junction with Allied forces to
Burmese Myitkyina, assaulted pre-
pared mountain positions eight
miles west of captured Tatangtzu
village
Stilwell's Chinese and Ameri-
cans stormed into Myitkyina to
within half a mile of the rail-
way station. This was the first
notable advance to days.
The Myitkyina battle was a vital
part of the China battle, for Stil-
well needs it to link the Ledo and
Burma roads for a supply line Into
China.
have a group ct trained leaders to
light an offensive war to teach en-
slaved humanity that freedom is the
See HSU, r2 8, Col. 2
D-Day 'Shadow
Time' to Reich
LONDON, May 29—(P)—The Ger-
mans' invasion propaganda has
gone in for swing music
A new hour-long swing program
entitled "D-Day Calling" was put
on the air by the German radio
last night, with the theme song
"When D-Day Comes" played to
the tune of "When Shadows Fall.”
struck from Italy, chiefly at
the Italian battle area.
The daylight assaults capped
a night to which the RAF
kept the snow-balling air of-
fensive rolling unchecked by as-
saults an the northwestern
French railroad center of An-
gers, the German chemical city
of Ludwigshafen, and other tar-
gete on the French coast.
The RAF operations last night,
which also included mine laying In
enemy waters, coat one British
plane.
The railway center at Angers—a
new objective—was ths main tar-
get of the British night bombers.
The attack was reported heavy, al-
though the Air ministry indicated
the force was not unusually large.
The Nasi report of the incursion
from the south into the Danube
basin toward southeastern Germany
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Naples, May 29.-(UP)—Italian-
based American heavy bombers
blasted German troop concen-
trations to Yugoslavia today in
direct support of Marshal Tito’s
Partisan armies.
Indicated Mediterranean Allied air
force bombers may be on an opera-
tion like last Wednesday, when they
trounced a number of objectives
around Vienna.
Since dawn Saturday, exelus-
Ive of the latest night attack by
British planes, about 14.300 tons
of bombs have been loosed by
Allied planes on countless com-
tinental objectives by some 12,-
000 serial sorties flown from
Britain and Italy.
This tempest of fire and steel ssw
the greatest American aerial arm-
ada ever sent on a single mission-
a fleet of about 2,200 bombers and
fighters—smash at synthetic oil
plants and other installations in
central and western Germany Sun-
day.
The American raiders delivered
the major but not the only blows
of the heaviest single dsy in the
western European air war. In all
more than 6,000 planes roared out
from the British bases and rained
more than 8,500 tons of bomb on
targets rariglllg Ill Ute oxy from
the channel coast to Leipzig.
American looses were 34 bombers
and 13 fighters, while 93 German
planes were shot down. Fighters ac-
counted for 41 of the total bag of
enemy planea and bomber gunners
got the rest
Cloudburst Cuts
Highway at Gap
A cloudbunt, with rainfall esti-
mated up to as much as four inches
in some areas, flooded fields in the
aouth part of Taylor county Sunday,
halted traffic at some crossings on
Jim Ned and Eim creeks and inun-
dated flats in the area.
While Abilene received only
a sprinkling .09 inch, rain at
Lake Abilene was measured at
2.41 inches and to the Buffalo
Gap area was estimated to ba
from three to four inches, fall-
log to some 40 minutes.
Traffic was halted through Buf-
falo Gap west tote Sunday as Eim
creek widened from the normal 18
feet to 400 yards. The road was
opened this morning.
The Elm crook crest flattened out
as it neared Abilene and the rise
was measured at from eight to 10
feet at the city this morning.
• ••
Rain estimated at 2.5 inches at
Tuscola put Jim Ned creek out of
banks and blocked traffic on some
of the cross roads although the
main crossings remained open.
Fields in the areas were flooded by
the washing rain and farmers in
the area this morning believed most
crops would have to be re-planted.
Bradshaw, which had escaped
heavy downpours since the present
rainy season began, received' an
inch rain late Sunday.
Precipitation in Abilene since
the first of the year now totals
10.29 inches ae against a fall of
U1 to the same date last year
and s normal fall of 9.69.
The Weather
HOT WEATHER, SMOOTH SEAS INVITE ALLIES TO CROSS CHANNEL
June 1st *
Winters, Goree Men
Prisoners of Nazis
T-Sgt. Leroy R. Kraatz of Win-
ters and S-Sgt. Doyce V. Burt of
Goree are prisoners of war of
Germany, it was announced by the
War department today.
Sergeant Kraatz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frits Kraatz of Winters, had
LONDON, May 29—(P)—Invasion
days—if summery weather and
smooth seas art any criterion—lay
benignly upon Britain today as
Allied eagerness and Nazi appre-
.Pension read into nearly every fact
or rumor some bearing on the long
awaited and most wide-lyheralded
military operation of all time.
For the second successive day
ft was bright and hot along
ra Dover strait, with the tempera-
T.ture reaching 100 degrees short-
ly before noon,
Nazi propaganda broadcasts as-
serted the Allied high command al-
ready had passed up its most favor-
able invasion opportunity because
it had found out its legions of men
and stupendous array of equipment
were not as ready for the great
event aa it had thought
Berlin made a wild guess, also,
that "Gen. Elsenhower is waiting
for fresh troops from America" be-
fore giving the go-ahead for the
western assault.
"The Allied high command has
allowed the past week—most fav-
orable both from the point of view
of tides and weather—go by because
It has discovered flaws in arma-
ment end preparations of the in-
vasion forces,” proclaimed the Ger-
man-controlled Brussels radio.
There was invasion tenseness in
this armed island over the sunny
Whitsun weekend. The people re-
membered with gratification during
these Dunkerque evacuation anni-
versary days how the war in Eur-
ope has sung in a full cycle from
the dark days four years ago. News-
papers again told of invasion tense-
ness in the United States also.
la hot and sunny weather
yesterday shirt-sleeved folk on
the south coast listened while
“clouds” of planes—the weapons
which former French Premier
Paul Reynaud in 1940 beseeches
an unarmed United - States to
send France to the hear of her
travail—headed ever a shim-
Bering sea against Nazi Europe.
For 14 hours the sun biased and
the temperature rose to an unusual
94 in the sun and 79 in the shade,
hottest of the year, before thunder-
clouds brought heavy rains to the
Strait of Dover \ '
The people near the glistening
cliffs of Dover heard day-long
rumbling of bombs and anti-air-
craft fire from France where the
cliffs of Calais also shone in the
sun. “The weather’s fine for the
real thing,” they mused.
"This is our biggest moment since
Dunkerque and just as trying a
testing time for our nerves," observ-
ed one British writer.
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WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENEAND VICINITY-Consid-
erable cloudiness scattered thunder-
showers tonight and Tuesday.
EAST TEXAS Considerable eloudi-
ness, scattered thundershowers in east
and north portion this afternoon, to-
night and Tuesday
WEST TEXAS— Partly cloudy this
afternoon tonight and Tuesday.
Maximum temperature laat 24 hours.
79. •
Minimum temperature last 19 hours.
57.
Precipitation 24 hours ending 7:30 a.
m lodar. 04 inch
Total precipitation since Jan. 1, 1029
inches
Total precipitation to date last year,
8.21 inches
Normal precipitation thla date, 9.69
inches.
TEMPERATURES
Mon-Sun Sun Sat
62 62— 1— 75 74
60 60-2 78 76
59 80— 3—77 78
58 60-4 67 77
58 00 5—70 74
30
SERGEANT KRAATZ
Sunrise his morning
Sunset tonight .......
EE
— xa as an engincer-sunner uo ■ uomueI
61.52 and had been in England since
February.
been missing in action, since a raid
over Germany March 23. He was
an engineer-gunner on a bomber
Rites Here for
Gunshot Victim
Charges of murder without mallee
-have—been filed- on Joe Guerrant,
cafe operator of Lamesa, following
the death of Allie E Staggs, 34,
former resident of „Taylor county.
Sheriff A M. Bennett of Dawson
county said this morning.
Funeral for Mr. Staggs, who died
Saturday night in Guerrant’s cafe
of gunshot wounds, will be conduct-
ed at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Elliott
chapel by Clarence Snodgrass, min-
ister of the Church of Christ. Bu-
ris! will be in the Tuscola cemetery.
Guerrant has been released on
$3,000 bond set by Justice of
Peace D. M. Campbel of Lam-
esa. Bennett said. The shooting
followed an argument in Guer-
rant’s cafe, according to the
sheriff. Stages died immediate-
ly Owe bullet entered the upper
part of his chest.
Staggs had formerly lived in
Lamesa, but had lately been em-
ployed in the oil fields at Odessa
and had returned to Lamesa Sat-
urday on a visit.
He is survived by his father and
step-mother Mr and Mrs. W. T.
Staggs of Tuscola; four brothers,
M A and E E. of Abilene. W W.
of O’Donnell and Jasper Staggs of
San Diego, Calif.: and * sister, Mrs.
Harry Lowe of San Diego._______
Postoffice to Clow
Memorial Day will be observed
Tuesday by the postoffice, O. A.
Hale, postmaster, announced. Delive
eries will not be made and no win-
dow service will be available.
Nazi Re-Captured
DALLAS, May 29—7The Dal-
la« office of the FBI said today a
prisoner of - war, Nicola Manglerel,
who escaped a work detail near
Monticello, Ark., May 26, was re- e
captured the next day near Little
Rock, Ark.
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